John Given

Mr. John Given is a Principal at CIM Group LP.
Prior to joining CIM in 1997, he was the City Planner for Greeley, Colorado for four years before returning to his native Los Angeles, where he served the city's Community Redevelopment Agency for seven years and Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Agency for five years.
For over 30 years, Mr. Given has worked on building partnerships between public development agencies and private real estate development companies engaged in high priority redevelopment projects and transit-oriented development.
His accomplishments include catalytic redevelopment projects in downtown Los Angeles and around the Hollywood METRO stations.
Mr. Given is a member of the Urban Land Institute, the International Conference of Shopping Centers, and the American Institute of Certified Planners.
He has served as a founding board member of the Hollywood Entertainment District and was chairman of the City of Santa Monica Housing Commission.
Mr. Given received a B.A.
degree in Urban Planning from the University of Washington and a Masters in Regional Planning from Harvard University.